Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 81 62
Rank change year-on-year -45 -19 -15
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,398 1,529 3,665
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.57% 3.63% 3.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.09% 3.91% 4.48%
Number of salaries quoted 960 1,068 2,773
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.38% -16.47%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% -7.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 66,909 39,106 81,845
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.92% 92.82% 85.67%
Number of salaries quoted 41,448 22,678 59,603
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 27 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -33 1,272 £77,500 +3.33% 505
London +6 681 £90,000 +5.88% 222
Work from Home -21 608 £70,000 -2.77% 415
UK excluding London -104 596 £67,500 -3.57% 354
North of England -27 276 £69,310 -3.72% 97
North West -28 129 £70,000 -3.45% 61
South East -102 128 £72,500 +7.41% 119
Yorkshire -46 100 £69,310 -4.06% 15
Midlands -85 57 £67,500 +3.85% 45
South West -93 56 £62,500 -8.79% 42
North East -9 47 £65,000 +30.00% 21
East of England -28 41 £60,100 +4.52% 23
West Midlands -45 35 £72,500 +3.57% 20
Scotland -76 32 £60,000 -20.00% 13
East Midlands -66 21 £66,000 +1.54% 24
Wales -32 9 £53,171 -20.64% 8
Northern Ireland -40 6 £62,500 +13.64% 11
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 29 (2.07%) Apache Spark
2 18 (1.29%) Apache
2 18 (1.29%) Confluence
3 17 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (1.07%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 14 (1.00%) JBoss
6 13 (0.93%) IIS
7 12 (0.86%) OpenStack
8 9 (0.64%) CMS
8 9 (0.64%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
10 4 (0.29%) Appian
10 4 (0.29%) Camunda
10 4 (0.29%) GeoServer
11 3 (0.21%) Liferay
11 3 (0.21%) nginx
11 3 (0.21%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (0.93%) MS Visio
2 11 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.50%) Maya
4 6 (0.43%) PlantUML
5 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
6 3 (0.21%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.14%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.14%) Endur
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Retail
5 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.14%) Shopify
6 1 (0.072%) Actimize
6 1 (0.072%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.072%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.072%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.072%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.072%) Quorum
6 1 (0.072%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.072%) SAP FS
6 1 (0.072%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.072%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 762 (54.51%) AWS
2 576 (41.20%) Azure
3 302 (21.60%) GCP
4 241 (17.24%) Serverless
5 149 (10.66%) SaaS
6 120 (8.58%) AWS Lambda
7 115 (8.23%) GitHub
8 114 (8.15%) Azure DevOps
9 109 (7.80%) Amazon S3
10 86 (6.15%) Amazon EKS
11 80 (5.72%) AWS CloudFormation
12 75 (5.36%) Amazon SQS
13 67 (4.79%) Amazon ECS
14 57 (4.08%) Amazon EC2
15 55 (3.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 51 (3.65%) Azure Service Bus
17 46 (3.29%) GitHub Actions
18 45 (3.22%) OpenShift
19 41 (2.93%) Datadog
20 39 (2.79%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (3.65%) Broadband
2 13 (0.93%) HTTP
2 13 (0.93%) Network Security
3 9 (0.64%) DNS
4 7 (0.50%) AMQP
4 7 (0.50%) Firewall
4 7 (0.50%) Internet
5 6 (0.43%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (0.36%) DHCP
6 5 (0.36%) MQTT
6 5 (0.36%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.29%) HTTPS
7 4 (0.29%) LTE
7 4 (0.29%) SNMP
7 4 (0.29%) VPN
7 4 (0.29%) WAN
8 3 (0.21%) Modbus
9 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
9 2 (0.14%) RFID
9 2 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (13.59%) NoSQL
2 176 (12.59%) PostgreSQL
3 132 (9.44%) MongoDB
4 104 (7.44%) SQL Server
5 70 (5.01%) MySQL
6 66 (4.72%) DynamoDB
7 63 (4.51%) Relational Database
8 48 (3.43%) Elasticsearch
9 38 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
10 37 (2.65%) Redis
11 36 (2.58%) BigQuery
12 28 (2.00%) Big Data
13 22 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
13 22 (1.57%) RDBMS
14 15 (1.07%) Pinecone
15 14 (1.00%) Power BI
16 12 (0.86%) DB2
17 11 (0.79%) Data Lake
18 9 (0.64%) Tableau
19 7 (0.50%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 188 (13.45%) Git
2 124 (8.87%) Jenkins
3 107 (7.65%) GitLab
4 51 (3.65%) JIRA
5 50 (3.58%) TeamCity
6 39 (2.79%) Cucumber
7 35 (2.50%) JUnit
8 31 (2.22%) CircleCI
9 30 (2.15%) Cypress.io
10 27 (1.93%) Selenium
11 20 (1.43%) Bitbucket
12 19 (1.36%) Mockito
13 18 (1.29%) Maven
14 15 (1.07%) Claude Code
15 14 (1.00%) SonarQube
16 13 (0.93%) Vite
17 9 (0.64%) JMeter
18 8 (0.57%) Oracle Forms
18 8 (0.57%) Postman
18 8 (0.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 409 (29.26%) Finance
2 339 (24.25%) Social Skills
3 154 (11.02%) Banking
4 111 (7.94%) Public Sector
5 95 (6.80%) Law
6 88 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
7 69 (4.94%) Retail
8 68 (4.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 51 (3.65%) Telecoms
10 47 (3.36%) Financial Institution
11 37 (2.65%) Back Office
12 22 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
13 19 (1.36%) Advertising
13 19 (1.36%) Billing
13 19 (1.36%) Legal
14 15 (1.07%) Marketing
15 13 (0.93%) Games
16 12 (0.86%) Front Office
16 12 (0.86%) Manufacturing
17 11 (0.79%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 475 (33.98%) Developer
2 376 (26.90%) Senior
3 277 (19.81%) Software Engineer
4 211 (15.09%) Architect
5 183 (13.09%) Lead
6 119 (8.51%) Senior Developer
7 114 (8.15%) Full-Stack Developer
8 108 (7.73%) Java Developer
9 95 (6.80%) Java Engineer
10 94 (6.72%) Senior Software Engineer
11 90 (6.44%) Solutions Architect
12 72 (5.15%) .NET Developer
13 59 (4.22%) Software Developer
14 56 (4.01%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 51 (3.65%) Lead Developer
16 48 (3.43%) DevOps Engineer
17 43 (3.08%) Java Software Engineer
18 42 (3.00%) C# Developer
18 42 (3.00%) Principal Engineer
19 40 (2.86%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 316 (22.60%) React
2 289 (20.67%) .NET
3 285 (20.39%) RESTful
4 224 (16.02%) Node.js
5 221 (15.81%) Spring
6 215 (15.38%) REST
7 198 (14.16%) Spring Boot
8 174 (12.45%) Kafka
9 109 (7.80%) AngularJS
10 92 (6.58%) gRPC
11 83 (5.94%) .NET Core
12 79 (5.65%) HTML
13 70 (5.01%) CSS
14 66 (4.72%) RabbitMQ
15 64 (4.58%) Vue
16 62 (4.43%) .NET Framework
17 59 (4.22%) ASP.NET
18 56 (4.01%) OAuth
19 55 (3.93%) Middleware
20 54 (3.86%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 408 (29.18%) Cloud Native
2 249 (17.81%) Distributed Systems
3 103 (7.37%) Product Ownership
4 88 (6.29%) Enterprise Software
5 61 (4.36%) Greenfield Project
6 60 (4.29%) Legacy Systems
7 45 (3.22%) Over-the-Top Content
7 45 (3.22%) Video\Live Streaming
8 39 (2.79%) Algorithms
8 39 (2.79%) Data Structures
9 31 (2.22%) Distributed Architecture
10 25 (1.79%) Mobile App
10 25 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
11 24 (1.72%) Blockchain
12 22 (1.57%) Virtual Team
13 20 (1.43%) AI Agents
13 20 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
14 17 (1.22%) Public Cloud
15 16 (1.14%) Management Information System
16 15 (1.07%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 68 (4.86%) Linux
2 37 (2.65%) Windows
3 17 (1.22%) Unix
4 16 (1.14%) Android
5 7 (0.50%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.36%) CentOS
6 5 (0.36%) Debian
6 5 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.36%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.21%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.072%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 683 (48.86%) CI/CD
2 558 (39.91%) Agile
3 541 (38.70%) DevOps
4 526 (37.63%) Software Engineering
5 390 (27.90%) Containerisation
6 316 (22.60%) Full-Stack Development
7 300 (21.46%) Mentoring
8 298 (21.32%) Problem-Solving
9 283 (20.24%) Event-Driven
10 281 (20.10%) Continuous Improvement
11 273 (19.53%) Test Automation
12 256 (18.31%) AI
13 229 (16.38%) Infrastructure as Code
14 187 (13.38%) Computer Science
15 169 (12.09%) Scrum
16 165 (11.80%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 158 (11.30%) Clean Code
18 156 (11.16%) Coaching
19 155 (11.09%) Technical Leadership
20 154 (11.02%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 452 (32.33%) Java
2 392 (28.04%) Python
3 293 (20.96%) SQL
4 265 (18.96%) JavaScript
5 248 (17.74%) C#
6 218 (15.59%) TypeScript
7 137 (9.80%) Go
8 51 (3.65%) Scala
9 44 (3.15%) PHP
10 43 (3.08%) C++
11 35 (2.50%) Bash
11 35 (2.50%) C
12 30 (2.15%) Ruby
13 22 (1.57%) PL/SQL
14 20 (1.43%) Kotlin
15 17 (1.22%) PowerShell
15 17 (1.22%) Shell Script
16 14 (1.00%) Rust
17 10 (0.72%) Groovy
18 9 (0.64%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 194 (13.88%) Degree
2 132 (9.44%) Security Cleared
3 112 (8.01%) Computer Science Degree
4 88 (6.29%) SC Cleared
5 59 (4.22%) AWS Certification
6 33 (2.36%) Azure Certification
7 32 (2.29%) Master's Degree
8 28 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 26 (1.86%) TOGAF Certification
10 23 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
11 21 (1.50%) CISSP
11 21 (1.50%) DV Cleared
12 16 (1.14%) AWS Certified Developer
13 12 (0.86%) CISM
13 12 (0.86%) DBS Check
14 8 (0.57%) PhD
15 7 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
16 6 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
16 6 (0.43%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (6.51%) QA
2 31 (2.22%) GDPR
3 28 (2.00%) Accessibility
4 26 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (1.86%) PCI DSS
5 19 (1.36%) NIST
6 16 (1.14%) SOC 2
7 11 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
8 10 (0.72%) NCSC
9 9 (0.64%) GRC
10 6 (0.43%) IFRS
11 5 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.36%) WCAG
12 4 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.29%) SLA
13 3 (0.21%) Data Quality
13 3 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 3 (0.21%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.21%) SEPA
14 1 (0.072%) EMIR
System Software
1 429 (30.69%) Docker
2 14 (1.00%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.36%) Firmware
4 2 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 439 (31.40%) Kubernetes
2 261 (18.67%) Terraform
3 82 (5.87%) Grafana
4 78 (5.58%) Ansible
5 40 (2.86%) Prometheus
6 26 (1.86%) Argo
7 19 (1.36%) Kibana
8 16 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (0.64%) HP Fortify
10 7 (0.50%) Cilium
11 6 (0.43%) Puppet
12 4 (0.29%) Istio
12 4 (0.29%) Packer
12 4 (0.29%) Rancher
13 3 (0.21%) Nagios
14 2 (0.14%) MIIS
14 2 (0.14%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 122 (8.73%) Microsoft
2 66 (4.72%) Google
3 51 (3.65%) Oracle
4 45 (3.22%) Typelevel
5 20 (1.43%) OpenAI
6 16 (1.14%) Dynatrace
7 15 (1.07%) IBM
7 15 (1.07%) Red Hat
7 15 (1.07%) SAP
8 14 (1.00%) Salesforce
9 13 (0.93%) AppDynamics
10 11 (0.79%) CrowdStrike
11 10 (0.72%) Cisco
11 10 (0.72%) Databricks
12 9 (0.64%) Atlassian
12 9 (0.64%) Splunk
13 8 (0.57%) Adobe
14 7 (0.50%) Guidewire
14 7 (0.50%) MuleSoft
14 7 (0.50%) Software AG